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Subject: Photocartographies Announcement
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:31:00 -0700
From: Brian Rosa <[log in to unmask]>
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Photocartographies
Tattered Fragments of the Map
*Location:* g727, 727 Spring Street, Downtown LA
*Dates of Exhibition:* May 16 - July 3
*Gallery Hours:* Friday - Saturday, 1-6 pm
*Opening Reception: *Saturday, May 16 7-10pm
*April 27, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA)* Photocartographies: Tattered
Fragments of the Map is a curatorial project that includes an art
exhibition, a series of public programs and a book of related essays.
g727, a non-profit art gallery in downtown Los Angeles, will host the
exhibition and associated events.
Photography and cartography are entwined in similar processes of subject
orientation that structure our experience of social, environmental and
virtual landscapes. A map is not a representation so much as a system of
propositions. This project reveals mapping itself as a generative
process of knowledge creation, a liberatory method for re-imagining and
re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, and the
relationship between space and place.
An international roster of artists have been selected by independent
curators Adam Katz (Los Angeles) and Brian Rosa (Mexico City) to
participate in the exhibition. Mapping and photography are conceptual
frameworks, rather than methods, that unite this group of artists. The
exhibition will include video, installation and sculptural pieces in
addition to two-dimensional photographic work and digital renderings.
Participating artists include *Anthony Auerbach, Katherine E. Bash, Noah
Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David
Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Oraib Toukan, Angie Waller* and
*Nikolas Schiller.*
Throughout the duration of the exhibition, g727 will host a series of
public programs that further engage issues of orientation, land use, the
city, maps and technology. Each event includes a small reception and all
are open to the public.
* *Travelogue* – An evening of films by experimental filmmaker
Bill Brown and a video installation by Bia Gayotto, Xing LA:
From Altadena to LB.
* *Shaping LA: Maps for planning, developing and resisting the
city* – A panel discussion moderated by James Rojas with Los
Angeles urban planners, developers and activists.
* *enGage ludiCity*: A Situationist-inspired ludic urban action
(derive / detournement) using mobile technology for collective
design and reflexion on the psychogeography and historicity of
Los Angeles. A Cultural Civic Computing experience by UCLA's
Center for Research in Engineering Media and Performance (REMAP).
In the publication, Tattered Fragments of the Map, artists are joined by
critics and scholars in a collection of essays that explore broader
themes orbiting around the terrain of photographic and cartographic
representation, image making and consumption, and the experience and
interpretation of landscape. Rather than drawing conclusions from the
work presented in the exhibition, this collection of texts is offered as
a projection, a departure, a tangent, a gesture towards new territories
for thought and inquiry. Contributors include *Anthony Auerbach, Cris
Benton, Bill Brown, Bill Fox, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Gerardo Greene
Gondi, Herbert Gottfried, Alex Haber, Simone Hancox, Adam Katz , Brian
Rosa,* and *Anusha Venkataraman*.
The website tatteredfragments.info <http://tatteredfragments.info/>
provides a complete calendar of events, artist bios, and information on
how to support this no-profit venture. Commemorative artworks by
participating artists are on sale through the website, as is the
associated publication.
*About the Curators*
Adam Katz is a cultural programmer, consultant, and curator in Los
Angeles. He currently manages the programs at Telic Arts Exchange,
co-directs the artist run workspace gallery and has recently developed
innovative arts and community spaces in Venice Beach (The Mission) and
Silver Lake (siteLA).
Brian Rosa is an urban researcher, photographer, and curator. He is
currently based in Mexico City, where he is preparing Palimpsesto
Urbano, an exhibition on the symbolic role of large-scale planning in
Mexico during the Porfirio Diaz regime, as part of his participation
with El Taller Internacional de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y+.
Exhibition at/g727/ <http://g727.org/>, May 16-July 3
Gallery open Friday / Saturday 1-6
Reception May 16, 7:00-10:00
727 South Spring Street, downtown Los Angeles
Please visit tatteredfragments.info <http://tatteredfragments.info/> for
more information on the exhibition and events
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